Victorian Railways Searching for Commissioner Australians Turned Down Melbourne
A dozen applicants for the position of Chief Railway Commissioner in Victoria have been turned down. A search is to be made in England, and…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1920
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By Road to Sydney Mr. T. Rhodes's Journey Sign Posts Missing
Mr. T. Rhodes, late engineer in charge of the Menindie Railway, who left by road for Sydney on Wednesday of last week, writes as follows:-…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →British Railways Minister Refers to Wages £63,000,000 Increase Closer Co-operation Is Promised by Workers (Reuter'sa Message.) London, January 20
Sir Eric Geddes, Minister of Transport, in a speech at Cambridge upon the railway settlement, declared that if the men had not adopted the recent…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Seven People Injured in Victorian Motor Accident Touring Car Overturns
A motor accident occurred on Monday near Lilydale. Seven visitors from Melbourne, who were being driven from the city to Marysville, were injured as…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Outrage in India Bomb Thrown at Train (Reuter's Message.) Delhi, January 22
Official: On the night of January 19, a bomb was throw[?] at a passenger train between Tarn and Pabbi, near Nowahera. It was apparently aimed…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →N.S.W. Railway Service Increase of Wages Not Yet Been Paid Sydney
At a meeting of the New South Wales Parliamentary Labor Party yesterday it was decided to appoint a deputation to wait on the Chief Railway…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Storekeeper Killed in a Motor Accident Head Terribly Smashed Sydney
Mr. Joseph Winter, a well-known storekeeper of Yass, was killed as the result of a motor accident on the Good Hope-road about five miles from the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Clare-spalding Railway Work May Be Resumed Adelaide
There is a probability of work being resumed on the construction of the Clare-Spalding railway shortly. The men were willing to return, but were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Body Found on Railway Port Angusta
Joseph Newman Hopgood, a secondclass passenger to Perth by Tuesday night's express, was found dead near Wirraminna on Wednesday by a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Italian Railwaymen Haye Called a Strike Public Opposition (Reuter's Message.) London, January 21
Reuter's Rome correspondent reports on January 19 that, notwithstanding the recent arrangement whereby the railway men are to have a voice in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Outrage in India Bomb Thrown at Train (Reuter's Message.) Delhi, January 22
Official: On the night of January 19, a bomb was thrown at a passenger train between Tarn and Pabbi, near Nowshera. It was apparently aimed…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Body Found on Railway Port Augusta
Joseph Newman Hopgood, a secondclass passenger to Perth by Tuesday night's express, was found dead near Wirraminna on Wednesday by a…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Railway Board Adopts New Basic Wage Victorian Decision Melbourne
The Victorian railway investigation board has decided in favor of 11/9 as the baisc wage. This will apply in the country as well…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Returning Soldiers How to Get Free Railway Tickets
Next-of-[?]in may obtain two fr[?] first-class return tickets to Adelaide to meet their returning soldier relatives— one for the next-of-kin and one for…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Two Persons Injured in Adelaide Motor Accident One Dangerously Ill Adelaide
A motor accident occurred at the corner of Pennington Terrace and Palmer Place, North Adelaide, on Friday, evening, which resulted in F. J. Jennings,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Two Persons Injured in Adelaide Motor Accident One Dangerously Ill Adelaide
A motor accident occurred at the corner of Pennington Terrace and Palmer Place, North Adelaide, on Friday evening, which resulted in F. J. Jennings,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Road to Fortune
The road to fortune is the road to health. Success, and the ability to enjoy it, can only be the property of those who keep their bodies fit and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Railway Line Accident Death of the Victim Sydney
Frederick Phillips (46), a resident of Stanmore, had his right leg severed below the knee while working on the railway line at Petersham. He was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Industrial Disputes Italian Railway Strike (Reuter's Message.) Rome, January 21
A railway strike has begun, and the services are more or less affected in various districts owing to the absence of the locomotive staffs, but are being…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Death at Railway Station. Adelaide
Arthur Hastwell, a returned soldier, died suddenly on the Adelaide railway station yesterday…
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